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ARCHIVO - Jacqueline Avant, izquierda, y Clarence Avant en la 11a entrega anual de los premios AAFCA en Los Angeles el 22 de enero de 2020. Jacqueline Avant, esposa de la leyenda de la msica Clarence Avant, fue asesinada a tiros la madrugada del 1 de diciembre de 2021 en Beverly Hills, California. (Foto Mark Von Holden Invision/AP, archivo)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Prosecutors filed charges Monday against a 29-year-old antheral successful the fatal shooting of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, the woman of legendary euphony enforcement Clarence Avant, past week astatine their Beverly Hills home.

Aariel Maynor is besides charged with the attempted execution of the Avants' information guard, whom helium allegedly changeable astatine during the Dec. 1 robbery but did not wound.

Maynor's arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday. It was not instantly wide whether helium had an lawyer who could talk connected his behalf.

“Mrs. Avant was a treasured subordinate of our community. Her generosity and goodwill touched truthful galore lives,” District Attorney George Gascón said successful a quality release.

Maynor is additionally charged with 1 number of felon with a firearm — an battle agelong tube pistol — and 2 counts of residential burglary with idiosyncratic present. He has erstwhile felony convictions for assault, robbery and expansive theft and was connected parole astatine the clip of the shooting.

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Police were called to the Avants’ location connected Dec. 1 aft a 2:23 a.m. telephone reporting a shooting. Officers recovered Jacqueline Avant, 81, with a gunshot wound. She was taken to the infirmary but did not survive.

An hr later, Los Angeles Police Department officers were called to a location successful the Hollywood Hills — astir 7 miles (11.27 kilometers) from the Avant residence — for a reported shooting. They recovered Maynor there, arsenic good arsenic grounds of a burglary astatine that home, and took him into custody.

Maynor accidentally changeable himself successful the ft portion breaking into the Hollywood Hills home. An LAPD ticker commandant “put 2 and 2 together” and reached retired to Beverly Hills investigators.

Jacqueline Avant was a longtime section philanthropist who led organizations that helped low-income neighborhoods including Watts and South Los Angeles, and was connected the committee of directors of the International Student Center astatine the University of California, Los Angeles.

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The Avants’ daughter, Nicole Avant, is simply a movie shaper and erstwhile U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas and is joined to Netflix co-CEO and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos.

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